The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-10
The knights and Standard Oil.

MINNEAPoLIs, Oct. S.-The knights of Labor
convent Ion opened at 9l5 this morning. Thos.
II. Lowry. of District ILL., Bradford. Pa, moved
to suspend rules in order to be given time to
read an appeal on the operations of the Stand
ard oil monopoly. This motion was carried,
and the paper read by Mr. Lowry. It WIS of
considerable length and referred in unmeas-
ured terms to the operations of the monopoly
pers OF similar nature to be presented. The
following is the appeal by the Knights on a
operative oil refining company:
CLEAN. N. Y. Aug. 20.
To the Officers Delegates the General Agse mbly:
Firmly believing in the ultimate success of our
enterprise in the interest of the common brother
hood. and relying, as must, the Knights of
appeal to this assembly for recognition and recon-
mendation to the order everywhere to purchase our
oil wherever it can be had and to make demand
to dealers for such goods. If the dealers will not
supply the OIL then ask the assemblies everywhere
to take action thereon. and order for their use
thereby creating demand for oil. Remember
we are attempting to compete with the strongest and
most interruptions monopoly in the world. They
have caused the surrender of greater number of oil
r efas and eotton.seed oil plants than all
petroleum oil refiners in Pennsylvania bank
ruptsd crushed out, bought up. leased,
and dsIaantled, embraces seventyone A list of
tonseed oil manufacturers frozen of existence by
the American cotton seed oil trust that is and
controlled by the Standard Oil Company, is ninety
four. furnish the of these firms if nee.
At the rate they have been able crush out
all competitors in the past ten years they will unless
some system of restraint be adopted own or con-
troll in twenty years. of all the railroads
aad manufacturing enterprises in the United States
In fact they control legislation in several
regarding the transportation of OIL pocketed
producer and consumer. We ask you members of
our common brotherhood to take such action as will
seem consistent under the circumstances.
L. G. PITT, President.
And other officers.
The appeal was received with applause and
cheers catcalls cries of Down with themn
ETC., and was placed in the hands Of the commit
tee on distribution. It will be Endorsed unan-
1mously.
The roll-cal of district occupied some time
and Mr.. Powderly on notion appointed a COM
mittee of five on the Labor Journal and another
OF five on immigration
Mr.. Noyes, chairman of the committee on con-
spiracy. resumed his report. This was quite ex-
talk Oh the part of Reilly. of New York, and
Secretary Litchman. OF Massachusetts. The
latter said that Jay Gould had grown so power
full that he would stop at nothing. He had alb
sorbed the B. & o. railway, certain new tele-
graph lines. and if he fit he could defeat any
laws or legislation passed by the Legislature of
any State in the country The dis cussion upon
conspraces occupied the remainder of the
session.
There was session Of the General Assem-
bly, Knights of Labor this afternoon but the
various committees were exceedingly busy pre-
pairing for presen tation to the convention of the
documents and resolutions handed in yesterday
and to-day.
In the evening an open meeting for the dis |
cussion of the land question was attended by |
about fifty Knights and some twenty five spoke |
On the subject The land theories OF Henvy ;